The sky on May 22, 1958 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 23.3° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 60.9° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 104.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 36.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 19.0° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 348.6° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 202.9° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 264.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☽︎ Moon 14% illuminated
astronomy-engine ephemerides (VSOP87/ELP), IAU 1930 constellation boundaries. Positions accurate to a fraction of a degree.
The day’s dossier, from real data
Checkable facts with a tag and a source; the classical reading is in the chart.
- The Moon that day [EXACT]
waxing crescent, 14% lit; the Moon was 385,857 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
68.4 orbits of the Sun — 64,256 million km, that is 83,580 return trips to the Moon; 24,973 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 496.3 billion km around the Galactic centre, 19.2 light-days.
29.78 km/s along the orbit; 230 km/s around the Galactic centre - Mars then and now [EXACT]
On that day Mars was 197 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.2×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, on the rise to maximum (39% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on December 24, 2027; Jupiter — in 2029; a full moon exactly on this date — May 22, 2035
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,420″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.3° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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